Taymouth Castle, Newhall Bridge. General view from South-West. Digital image of PT/4453

Description Taymouth Castle, Newhall Bridge. General view from South-West. Digital image of PT/4453

Date 1975

Catalogue Number SC 766033

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 4453

Scope and Content Newhall Bridge, Taymouth Castle, Perth & Kinross, from south-east This shows the two wrought-iron lattice arches of the early 19th-century Newhall Bridge, which spans the River Tay. This three-span bridge is constructed over a small island and has a stone cutwater, shown in centre, which divides the current of the river. A light lattice-girder railing runs along the top and the wooden roadway, originally wide enough for carriages, has since been narrowed to footpath size. Taymouth Castle grounds were remodelled and replanted between 1810 and 1862 and the majority of the work was finished by 1842 when Queen Victoria visited. The Queen wrote in her journal that: 'The firing of the guns, the cheering of the great crowd, the picturesqueness of the dresses, the beauty of the surrounding country, with its rich background of wooded hills, altogether formed one of the finest scenes imaginable. It seemed as if a great chieftain in olden feudal times was receiving his sovereign'. This bridge must surely have been decorated in an elaborate fashion as the Queen entered the estate over it. Taymouth Castle was built for the Campbells of Breadalbane and stands on the site of Balloch Castle, which was built c.1550. Taymouth's main block, built between 1802 and 1810, was designed by James Elliot (1770-1810) and the east wing, built between 1818 and 1821, was designed by William Atkinson (c.1773-1839). The west pavilion, built in the early 18th century, was designed by William Adam (1689-1748) and was altered by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855). The castle has important interior decoration by the Italian plasterer Francis Bernasconi and was visited by Queen Victoria in 1842. The Mactaggart family bought the estate in 1922 and converted the castle into a hotel and the deer park into a golf course. The castle was a convalescent home during World War II and has had several uses until c.1983 when it became unoccupied. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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